Frito-Lay produces almost 60 percent of all the chips sold in the United States. The company originated in 1932, when entrepreneurial-minded C.E. Doolin bought a tasty corn chip recipe in San Antonio, Texas. He dubbed the chips Fritos and sold them from his car. Around that same time, Herman Lay purchased a small potato chip company in Nashville, Tenn. Thirty years later both men decided to collaborate by merging their companies, now known as Frito-Lay.
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